Apparatus for making garment-stays



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E. G. BOWLING. APPARATUS FOR MAKING GARMENT STAYS. No. 385,996.

Patented July 10, 1888.

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E. G. BOWLING. APPARATUS FOR MAKING GARMENT STAYS.

Nd. 385,996. Patented July 10, 1888;

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EDI-0011. o BOWLING, or YPSIL-ANTI, MICHIGAN.

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' Application filed December 16, 1887. .Serlnl No. 258,131. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, ENOOHC. BOWLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ypsilanti, in the county of Washtenaw and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Making GarmentStays; and I do declare the following to be'a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and o the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis-specification. This invention relates to a machine for producing cloth-covered metallic blades or stitfencrs, more particularly known'as stays for garments, relating directly to the stay for which I obtained Letters Patent ofthe United States on May 10, 1887.

The stay produced by this machine, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, 'consists of a metallic blade having a textile-fabric covering' with an interposed impervious covering or coating of gutta-percha tissue. The fabric L covering being wider and longer than the flexible blade provides said blade with a fabric stitching edge surrounding the blade, whereby to agarment by stitching through the fabricprojection orlmarginal edge. A

The essential features of this invention will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out particularly in the claims. part of the specification, Figure 1 is an isomee trical View of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a like view showing the distributing frame elevated or swung upward at its free end. Fig. 3 is a section taken on the dotted line a wof Fig. 2, the parts being in they same relative position. .factured article as removed from the machine, excepting that one corn'cr shows the parts separated to better illustrate the construction. Fig. 5 shows the complete stay.

In the several views, A represents a platform ortable, and T the top. Crossing one endof the table is a rail, H, made fast to the top. To said rail is hinged, as shown at i z of Fig. 1, a swinging distributing--fram iconframe F is then swung down onto the gotta the article produced can be readily attached- In the accompanying drawings, forming a Fig. 4. shows a sheet of the manu-.

- G. Then by form. from the machine and'appear, as shown in Fig:

sisting of the side rails, B, and end'railslBl To the side rails is'secured a series of parallel 3 transverse bars, t.- Joining the bars t at right angles is aseries of dividers or parallel strips, '55

a. Between sald'last-mentioned strips is Me ries of openings or pockets, e, which pockets extend through the swingingframe for the pnr 3 poses hereinafter full y set forth.

The. operations of the mach'ne are'as'foh. 6o lows: The frame F being swung up, asshown'. in Fig. 2,. the operator places over the top of the table the layer of fabric 0; then on said fabric the sheet of gutta-perchatissue R. The":

5 percha tissue R, as shown'in Fig. 1. Theoperator then drops into each opening or pocket .0 a metal blade, S, the blades being previously heated. orlwarmed sufficientl y to cause the gutt'a-percha tissue to s'often'or melt and retain said blades in the position dropped, as shown .by the hand in Fig. 1. When each. pocket e of the frame F has receiveda me; t-allic blade, the frame-F-is swung up, as shown in Figs.'2 and 3. The metallic blades by the 7 heat having become cemented to the sheet of gutta-percha tissue 0 remain in their respective positions, as clearly shownby the white lines of Fig. .2, wherein the black shows the sheet of gutta-percha tissue. 'Itwill be observed that the parallel strips a of theframe locate the blades S on the'gutta-percha timue V at a uniform distance from each other, and that j the transverse strips t of said frame form spaces, whereby theends of the blades SM '85 the various rows are located onsaid sheet at a uniform distance from each other. The object of locating the blades at such distance from each other will be hereinafter explained. The'frame F being elevated, as inFig. 2, and c the metal blades S located v on. the sheet of gutta-perc'hatissue, as shown in said.view,-' the operator places a sheet of gutta-percha tissue, R, over. said blades; then onsaid sheet of gutta-percha tissue a sheet of textile fabric, 9 '5 assing over the upper layer of fabric aheate -iron the sheets R R of gottapercha tissue will become meltedor softened, whereby they readily enter themesh'es of the fabrics, thus uniting the parts together in sheet The partsunitetLare. then removed 4, excepting that in said view the parts are shown as separated at one corner to show the interposed blades 8.

The sheet produced and shown in Fig. 4 is cut by means of a knife or pinking-wheel (not shown) along the dotted lines 2, whereby the garmentstay of Fig. 5 is produced.

The object of locating the steel or metal blades at some distance from each other between the covering fabrics is to provide said blades with a textile-fabric border, 0, which shall surround each blade, as shown in Fig. 5, and to also provide a fabric body through which to out, so as to separate each blade, t has producing the described article, as shown in Fig. 5.

It will be observed from the foregoing that metallic or stiffening blades may be more rap idly covered and cheaply produced, the old method of Wrapping the fabrics around each blade being expensive and a slow way of pro dncing such goods.

Having thus fully set forth my invention,

what I claim as ne\v,and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. In combination with the platform, the distributing-frame consisting of the side and end rails, the series of transverse bars 1, the series of parallel strips a, said strips joining the bars tat right angles, and the open pockets e, extending through the distributing-frame formed within the angles of said bars, as and for the purposes specified.

2. In combination with the platform or table, the frame hinged at one end thereto, said frame consisting of the side rails, Bfthe end rails, B, the transverse bars t, the interposed bars a, and the open pockets 0, extending through the frame, as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ENOUH O. BOWLING.

Witnesses:

Mrs. G. L. BOWLING, MINNIE H. WHEELER. 

